Africa's Unicorn caught on camera

[The Silence and I]

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The okapi, a creature so strange and rare it was once thought to be a unicorn, has been photographed for the first time in the wild.

The images were captured by a motion-triggered camera in Virunga National Park, deep in the jungles of the Democratic Republic of Congo.

Some had feared that the okapi -- a close relative of the giraffe, though mottled with zebra-like stripes -- had been driven extinct by habitat loss and human predation during the decade-long central African civil war.

Follow the link for pictures. Pretty cool looking beast if you ask me.

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funny story, my former roommate Matt, told me how when he was in second grade his teacher asked the students to draw their favorite animal, well he drew the okapi. Teacher got mad at him because she thought he had made up an animal, she had never heard of it and thought it did not exist.

[frigidmagi]

Rock! This is certainly damn cool.

And now for the unpopular part of the post.

Given how rare it is, shouldn't we try to corral a number of them to set up a safe breeding population and get genetic material?